Can A Woman Keep A Secret

Tho Ninttetnih Century, a periodical publii-hed in Charleston, thus Ueats this inusli inooted point : "Men say women can't koep a secret. It'sjust the reverse - women can, rúen enn't. Women oarry witb them peorota that would kill any man. Woiuan never tells ; runn always does. Wnman suffers and dies ; man bhibs and lives. - Man cannot keep a eecret ; vvoman cannot make it known. What 19 sport to the man is death to the wonvin. Adam was a eneak. Eve would have kopt the apple a secret. Be ye fuithful. Whoever lieard a woraan talk abotit her iover's fiascos ? Everybody has hcard a man goesip. Man delights in telling of his illicit conquesta ; wouian would eut her tongue out first. Men are coarse in their club-rooin talk ; women refined in their psrlor conversation. Who ever heard of a woman telling of her lover ? Who has not listenod to the disaipatioo of men ? Men boast ; women don't. - Women never teil nales out of school ; men are always blnbbing. So, down with another o!d adsge. Woman c:in kocp a 8eoret and lier obtlity to do so is proved by a St. John (Xew Brunswick) girl, who did tiot teil her lover she was worth four millious in her own right until aftar her marriagc." Á minister once prayed : "O Lord, wo thank Thee for the goodly uniber hero to-night, and that ïhou lso art here, notwitlistnnding tho iuclcmpncy of tbe wcathor."